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@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@raznomore @mariner4life well laa dee daa! Look at you tertiary educated brain boxes.
easy there, i forgot you muslim extremists hate the educated. but the trigger down
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@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@raznomore @mariner4life well laa dee daa! Look at you tertiary educated brain boxes.
I went to uni because they didn't ID me at the campus bar and girls.
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@raznomore said in Hello Boomer...:
@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@raznomore @mariner4life well laa dee daa! Look at you tertiary educated brain boxes.
I went to uni because they didn't ID me at the campus bar and girls.
Tomorrow's leaders!
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@raznomore think it started earlier, they talked about the Cavaliers tour in the 80s getting rugby offside with a lot of people.
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@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@raznomore @mariner4life well laa dee daa! Look at you tertiary educated brain boxes.
easy there, i forgot you muslim extremists hate the educated. but the trigger down
Muslim? Oh we all look the same to you huh.
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@taniwharugby this is true but that music bs didn’t really start until the 90s.
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@raznomore said in Hello Boomer...:
@taniwharugby this is true but that music bs didn’t really start until the 90s.
Kevin Roberts from Saatchi and Saatchi was on the nzru board at the time and he was probably behind it.
Whatever inroads or goodwill League made in the Winfield cup years in the early to mid 90s they thoroughly pissed away pretty quickly with the super league bullshit and the farce that’s the warriors so it’s no excuse for the pa blaring out “ heeeeeeey baby ooh ahh I wanna knoooooow” every time there’s a lineout .
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@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@raznomore @mariner4life well laa dee daa! Look at you tertiary educated brain boxes.
easy there, i forgot you muslim extremists hate the educated. but the trigger down
Muslim? Oh we all look the same to you huh.
Yer dern tootin
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@No-Quarter said in Hello Boomer...:
@Rapido it feels like such a grumpy old man thing to complain about but I so agree with you. Crap music at sporting events is an absolute blight and it actively detracts from the whole experience, to the point you don't actually want to attend.
I'm almost certain if they cut that shit out crowd numbers would go up.
Totally agree. Don't even get me started on restaurants with awful acoustics blaring music so you can't have a conversation. Apparently it's "atmosphere". Gaah.
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@TeWaio said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter said in Hello Boomer...:
@Rapido it feels like such a grumpy old man thing to complain about but I so agree with you. Crap music at sporting events is an absolute blight and it actively detracts from the whole experience, to the point you don't actually want to attend.
I'm almost certain if they cut that shit out crowd numbers would go up.
Totally agree. Don't even get me started on restaurants with awful acoustics blaring music so you can't have a conversation. Apparently it's "atmosphere". Gaah.
You could always try "restaurants" other than 'spoons?
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@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@TeWaio said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter said in Hello Boomer...:
@Rapido it feels like such a grumpy old man thing to complain about but I so agree with you. Crap music at sporting events is an absolute blight and it actively detracts from the whole experience, to the point you don't actually want to attend.
I'm almost certain if they cut that shit out crowd numbers would go up.
Totally agree. Don't even get me started on restaurants with awful acoustics blaring music so you can't have a conversation. Apparently it's "atmosphere". Gaah.
You could always try "restaurants" other than 'spoons?
I wish! Maybe its a London thing, but I actually find higher-end restaurants are the worst at this.
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@Bones said in Hello Boomer...:
@TeWaio said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter said in Hello Boomer...:
@Rapido it feels like such a grumpy old man thing to complain about but I so agree with you. Crap music at sporting events is an absolute blight and it actively detracts from the whole experience, to the point you don't actually want to attend.
I'm almost certain if they cut that shit out crowd numbers would go up.
Totally agree. Don't even get me started on restaurants with awful acoustics blaring music so you can't have a conversation. Apparently it's "atmosphere". Gaah.
You could always try "restaurants" other than 'spoons?
Isn't Weatherpsoons whole thing that they didn't play any music at all (and had cheap beer ..... )?
That was the case 20 years ago when I lived there.
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I've probably told this story several times on here. But anecdote time.
I reckon I could well have been in attendance at the very first rugby game in NZ that played after-try music.
I moved to Wellington in 94, and started going to Athletic a few times a year, Wellington were a fun but flawed team to follow, and even with 12 to 15,000 Athletic Park would feel like it was humming.
First S12 season, Athletic Park, was like Wellington games but even better. Bigger crowds plus now the regional folk heroes to follow like Bull Allen, Norm Hewitt, Christian Cullen. Then in one game during this 96 or 97 season they would play the Hurricanes jingle after a try was scored. PA knowledge was pretty crude at the time, so it was speakers on the grass facing the stands and they were loud, I mean LOUD!
So after Cullen scores a typical spectacular Hurricanes try, the stadium is going off. Learner days for the PA guy , bit slow to start the jingle, Turns it on. It is so LOUD, last about 30 seconds by which time the players are back behind half way when he turns it off. Complete silence, pin drop silence. Everyone had stopped cheering as they couldn’t hear a thing anyway. Nervous giggles from a few places.
Atmosphere sucker.
At this point in the normal process, the crowd near wherever the tryscorer stood for kick-off receipt would be giving him a special extra clap and cheer etc. Silence.
The marketing people needed to do an exit poll that day on what people thought of their ‘atmosphere-inducing’ innovation. Should have been nipped in the bud back in 1996.
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Its interesting that the recent crowds in NZ sport with any kind of atmosphere are ones without constant DJ interference.
MCG boxing day test, no music in test cricket. OK, element of boys on tour going large etc, and the co-opting of the barmy army song was cringy. But the cheering of even Blundell singles when they could sense a period of pressure was almost spine-tingling. The sense of a crowd willing someone on and being allowed to get involved and feeling like they can make a difference.
Other examples are the Phoenix, and All Whites world cup qualifiers. Yes, they’re singing, and yes they’re Europhiles trying to recreate a European and English environment. But 45 minute halves with no stoppages and therefore no music. When you get the full crowds like the WC Qualifiers or the early days of Phoenix play-off games - the atmosphere was really enjoyable, and responsive to the flows of the game.
Yet, despite this above. I really dislike parts of the Barmy Army. As they are about themselves. Singing Jeruulalem, totally ambivalent to the game. E.g. suddenly going from quiet to loud on the “Je – RU “ part just as a bowler is about to release, etc. Pisses me off if it’s my batsman and their bowler. Same with the “Who we aaaare” response chant. Suddenly quiet to loud and totally irrelevant to what is happening in the match. I find it distracting and am amazed that batsmen can keep their concentration.
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@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter totally works at NBL games
It does, but...
I'm a basketball guy through and through, played since I was 5 blah blah blah. And I still watch and follow the game.
BUT, there is no getting away from the fact that basketball fans at live games are by and large fcking weirdos. So many games I've been sitting there and feel like I'm at a Dungeons and Dragons Convention. It's a beautiful combination of family fun and a great night out for inbred couples.
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@voodoo said in Hello Boomer...:
@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter totally works at NBL games
It does, but...
I'm a basketball guy through and through, played since I was 5 blah blah blah. And I still watch and follow the game.
BUT, there is no getting away from the fact that basketball fans at live games are by and large fcking weirdos. So many games I've been sitting there and feel like I'm at a Dungeons and Dragons Convention. It's a beautiful combination of family fun and a great night out for inbred couples.
What a great description.
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@voodoo said in Hello Boomer...:
@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter totally works at NBL games
It does, but...
I'm a basketball guy through and through, played since I was 5 blah blah blah. And I still watch and follow the game.
BUT, there is no getting away from the fact that basketball fans at live games are by and large fcking weirdos. So many games I've been sitting there and feel like I'm at a Dungeons and Dragons Convention. It's a beautiful combination of family fun and a great night out for inbred couples.
where the fuck are you going to games?
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@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@voodoo said in Hello Boomer...:
@mariner4life said in Hello Boomer...:
@No-Quarter totally works at NBL games
It does, but...
I'm a basketball guy through and through, played since I was 5 blah blah blah. And I still watch and follow the game.
BUT, there is no getting away from the fact that basketball fans at live games are by and large fcking weirdos. So many games I've been sitting there and feel like I'm at a Dungeons and Dragons Convention. It's a beautiful combination of family fun and a great night out for inbred couples.
where the fuck are you going to games?
Taipans, I heard.
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@mariner4life Sydney would be the worst. But also Illawarra, Brisbane, in Oz and Auckland, Dunedin, Palmy , Welly etc in NZ
You telling me that Cairns is the outlier with only regular guys alongside hot 23yr olds in rowdy groups?
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Some of my favourite sporting experiences were attending college basketball games in the USA. I sat in the student section so the banter and atmosphere was always better than in the general public areas. Kirk Penney used to get shit when Wisconsin came to play. The only music was provided by the college band to accompany songs sung by the students. Maybe things have changed since then and they use more piped music.
